Dreamweaver and Photoshop are our preferred website design tools
In today's fast paced business world, Adobe Dreamweaver is our tool of choice for creating web pages. Although we could write your website's code manually, Dreamweaver enables us to quickly design a unique website for your business in a matter of hours, not weeks.
Dreamweaver not only enables us to create editable templates, the software uses web standard HTML and CSS coding and enables offline verification and browser compatibility checks throughout the design process as well as offering numerous other features.
We use Adobe Photoshop to create unique graphics to complement your marketing material, banner ads and slideshow banners to enhance your website.
With Dreamweaver and Photoshop we design and develop professional websites unique to your business; websites that are both functional and appealing. We create static and content managed websites, although our preferred CMS is WordPress.
If you need us to redesign or complete a website you have already started and the web pages were not created using Dreamweaver, we will start from scratch using Dreamweaver.
Unless you have a content managed website, when adding new content or making minor changes to your web pages, we prefer to edit your website offline and upload the updated files. However, if we need to make online edits of your content we use Adobe Contribute, the editing tools provided by your web host or we make changes via the file manager in your control panel.
Although most website designers use Fireworks to create graphics websites, our tools of choice are Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The long term benefit of using these applications is it saves you money..
When we create graphics for your website that you will also need for print, we can create or enlarge them, which means we can easily use them to create a banner sign or any other print material to match your website. The time we save not having to recreate your graphics is passed on to you as a cost saving.
Image specs for website designs
The image resolution for web images is 72 dpi. We optimize all images for the web which reduces the file size so they load quickly. However, where possible we use the high or max quality setting. All images for the web are cropped or resized in PhotoShop and, with the exception of eCommerce shopping carts, used at 100% size.